skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems to me that almost everything that needs to be said about the SS Public License has already been said. I have even posted twice about it (and related issues) myself a few times:
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2018/oct/16/mongodb-copyleft-...
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2020/jan/06/copyleft-equality...

The only thing I haven't seen said succinctly, although it's been hinted at by many, is this:

There is no one on the planet yet who has agreed that they will run a project under the SS Public License and be themselves bound by the SS Public License.

That really says it all. Whatever your view about copyleft licenses generally: legitimate and well-intentioned copyleft licenses (e.g., CC-BY-SA, GPL, and Affero GPL) have many projects that use the license in an inbound=outbound contributor licensing fashion. All (two of the) SS Public License uses have a strict CLA that give the publishing entity non-SS-Public-Licensed rights to the contributions. We shouldn't take anyone seriously who promulgates a license but won't use it themselves in an inbound=outbound way. Period. I suggest we all try to not give further interest to this clearly risible licensing proposals from MongoDB and Elastic.

If there's energy to focus here, I'd say it's toward figuring out how to handle good governance of forks of these two projects. I hope folks can maintain the discipline to discern and bifricate these two very different issues.
In addition, WSB on Reddit is now private.
I don't think there is any good justification for this
Yes but that is due to our current expensive healthcare system where out of pocket costs are just some insane arbritrary number. Most hospitals cannot even tell you a "cash" price until you really push. My whole point is that it is all so expensive BECAUSE of insurance. If insurance was not involved in preventive care for example, all hospitals and doctors would have to compete on cash price and that would lower the out of pocket costs significantly. I bet less people will need to got ER because now they don't need to pay $10,000 for a doctor visit.
They Need there own website!!
Social media is controlled by $$$$$$$ and government
> This is the way it works for a lot of therapy and mental health services and it’s horrible. Prices are absolutely insane, practitioners are not accommodating to patient schedules, and patients have absolutely zero bargaining power.

I think that is more a supply/demand issue.

I am not sure why people aren't rushing to become psychologists, it seems like it'd be a profitable field, but there is certainly a huge shortage, at least in major metro areas.

I'd really like to read a proper analysis of the situation...
Ask HN: What would the internet look like if we could create it from scratch?
I was talking about technical debt with a friend and we took it to the logical extreme, so I wanted to hear an answer from more senior technologists. What did we get right the first time? What would be completely different?
>She independently took my wife aside to ask questions, and my wife later told me that she did not ask about her income, but did ask to make sure she was not being abused, a question I was never asked.

Why would they ask you that for a transparent answer given where they're coming from? Or is this, "how dare they do routine questions that implicate my status"?
It's also a cherry picked example, networking code, of a problem that can be expressed equally as nicely with OO or functions. Now refactor a gui or a game without OO and you'll find the OO version easier to understand or cleaner.
Hopefully they don't stay this way. It is pretty annoying when subs disappear or get the cancel culture. Too many good ones have already disappeared.
Pinetalk Podcast
Yeah, I didn’t mean it in the legal sense. It was just interesting that this decision can cost certain people millions of dollars. But that’s true of many actions in the world, as you say.
Interesting thing is you can see the direct affect that WSB has in the aftermarket. It fell off a cliff around the time the subreddit went private.

But yeah tomorrow is going to be fun to follow this, when the real squeeze kicks in.
Append a 2
This is why I keep ringing the bell of open standards and protocols. This is why I still use IRC in 2021. This is why federation matters. Stop putting your eggs in someone else's corporate basket. Don't be duped by sparkly marketing and polish! You're being had!

https://xkcd.com/743/
Hacker news has divs for the upvote/downvote buttons too, which apparently is a cardinal sin
Sony’s creator-focused Xperia Pro arrives at $2,499
Or an investor.
check this out from 5 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25868680#25935933

I think the SEC thread created this morning had something to do with going private.

It isn't the first time they've gone private but this time with the discord being banned and all, im getting ban vibes.

Look if Discord can ban WSB over some cuss words, imagine what Reddit can do.

I'm on the phone with my broker as we speak and now I fear that this is a coordinated attack.

edit: so after I made that comment about github's half assed apology towards the guy that they terminated for saying "watch out for nazis", those same group of people are downvoting and flagging every single one of my comments. AGAIN. You didn't care when people were bringing attention to the anti-semitic memes being posted on Github 4 years ago, now you want to bury every fucking comment, just like the angry hedge fund managers getting their revenge on serfs making a little money.
New study finds stoners' business ideas are highly original, but not so feasible
Ask HN: What is the worst product you still use?
I think a lot of people are stuck with a bad product that they would prefer not to use, what is the worst product that you still have to deal with now?
I'm not sure what you're saying here.

If you want `def foo(a, b)` inside a class to be a static method, you need to define it as

class Foo:
@staticmethod
def foo(a, b):
...

Now `f = Foo(); f.foo(1, 2)` will work.

However, you need to be explicit about this because it is much more common for this situation to arise because someone forgot a self somewhere than for it to have been intentional. Requiring @staticmethod serves to signal to humans that this odd behavior is intentional (but again I'd say that, stylistically, if you're using a staticmethod, just move it out of the class and into the module namespace, module namespaces in python don't bite).
They need there OWN website!!!
What is your assertion based on?
In other words, ads and tracking are given priority over content. Welcome to Capitalism!
Ah thanks. I've replaced it with another link that's still working, which I don't remember how I found.
If you learn Clojure, you will not jump into Lisp without too much trouble.
Currently our frontend is react, backend node.js, and a MySQL database with a graphql API (edit).

Would be looking for folks to help make a more robust consumer facing site as we add products and different types of customers.

We've been focusing mostly on filling roles for the sterile fill-finish facility we are constructing in Dallas (QA, formulation specialists, etc.) and have put building out the dev team for the web sit kind of on the backburner with me just kind of personally managing it at the moment.

While Hacker News is looking though... :-)
the wikipedia on atomic orbital has some nice pictures of the wave function of electrons around the nucleus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_orbital
We are experiencing technical difficulties based on unprecedented scale as a
result of the newfound interest in WSB. We are unable to ensure Reddit's content
policy and the WSB rules are enforceable without a technology platform that can
support automation of this enforcement. WSB will be back.
My view right from the start of the internet has been to make quarrelling exact a cost, just as it does in real life. Thus downvoting should cost equal karma...
I repurposed a micro Dell Optiplex 3060 with 8GB RAM and two external HDDs totalling 9TB of space. The CPU is an i3. The whole thing takes less space than a book.

I have lz4 enabled and the gigabit link is almost completely saturated when transferring: 119 MB/s out of the total theoretical 125.

No ZIL, no L2ARC devices are attached. That thing is _flying_ as a home NAS.
Manufacture of rockets and space travel has always been privatized.
It is really a testament to spacex PR that that there is so much confusion on this topic.

They SpaceX is "private" in the sense that they are not listed on the stock exchanges. Previous manufactures were all "public" in the sense that they had gone through an IPO and you could buy stock.

People confuse this with public, as in the the government owned public pool.
Same exact thing that they are trying to do to Trump. The war between populists and establishment is just getting started.

This is probably not a popular (ha) opinion on HN right now, but just wait and see!
Companies to watch in 2021 working on reversing aging
A high level summary of rejuvenation biotech companies working on aging and age-related diseases that are in or close to human trials.
> We are experiencing technical difficulties based on unprecedented scale as a result of the newfound interest in WSB. We are unable to ensure Reddit's content policy and the WSB rules are enforceable without a technology platform that can support automation of this enforcement. WSB will be back.

If they don't come back before market open $GME, $AMC, $BB all go caput tomorrow. The community will panic sell without a place to unify.
(This is a stub reply so I can collapse the various comments responding to this, so as not to distract too much from the topic at hand.)
Yeah, I agree. But Swing has some cool themes nowadays. (And JavaFX is pretty easy to theme, but I have not yet tried it extensively)
It's because there was too much noise. Spam, new 0 karma accounts creating threads and posting the wrong kind of shitposts, etc. It was virtually inevitable.
Does the project have a testing framework in place? How is the project built and distributed? Can testing be integrated into its CI/CD pipeline? Is there a CI/CD pipeline? Adding frameworks and infrastructure to a project is one of those things that is a lot more work than it appears to be. They should do it, for sure, but I wouldn’t dismiss it as trivial on a decades-old system that was never built for it.
It is epically dumb.
Did you're read the article, and the statement Discord put out? I think the stated reason is the believable.

> Discord says it did not ban the server for financial fraud — rather, it was banned because it continued to allow “hateful and discriminatory content after repeated warnings.”
You're loudly and carefully missing the point.

The expectation is that investment is done to derive ownership of something with actual value.

This is a public pump and dump scheme masquerading as a righteous uprising.

Nobody said the market owed anyone anything. Save the sophism. Idiots are getting bilked, those are the answer to your question, and they still exist even if you want to re-define around them.

This is illegal for a reason.
In the last 20-30 minutes too, which suggests it was purely because of WSB getting wacked. That's weird, it seems like the sentiment of the people investing in GameStop wouldn't be changed just because of this.
Being without a relationship was Galloway's take. This poster's take is that he's find going to zero because him and many others would rather stick it to the man, even if it means the stocks go to zero eventually.
Going private is an action taken by subreddit moderators. Banning the sub is done by Reddit itself.
And now its restricted to only the malicious actors and dictatorial goverments that can buy it!
https://www.dmv.com/

For a sight that is so necessary to most Americans, it's really lacking in basic information and excessive in unnecessary information
> I don't think the fact that I can't give you an off-the-cuff but brilliant strategic plan in this Hacker News comment describing how Elon Musk could best structure his charitable foundation is a real indictment of my assertion that such a plan could be put together.

Mostly I just want to counter the mistaken idea that redistributing the wealth of billionaires would result in improvements for the poor. It wouldn’t, because that wealth is already in a form that can’t be easily translated into the things that poor people lack.

> As I mentioned in a previous comment to somebody else, I recognize that "giving away" incredible amounts of money is easier said than done -- but that doesn't mean it's not possible.

Its possible to give it away. I’m asking how to improve people’s live thereby. The wealth is in the form of companies that are already providing goods and services to people. There’s not enough profit to make meaningful direct cash payments to the poor. If you liquidate the companies assets you’ve expropriated Bezos’ wealth and sold it to people....then you do what with the money? We already know transfer payments are only temporary.

> Again, as I mentioned in that comment, MacKenzie Scott (Jeff Bezos's ex-wife) appears to be doing a startlingly good job of it. So is Bill Gates, as you mentioned. There are others.

Its not easy: [0]

>> Both insiders and external critics have suggested that there is too much deference to Bill Gates's personal views within the Gates Foundation, insufficient internal debate, and pervasive "group think."[101][159] Critics also complain that Gates Foundation grants are often awarded based on social connections and ideological allegiances rather than based on formal external review processes or technical competence.

> There are all sorts of conversations to be had about extreme wealth, but it really does strike me as at least reasonable for part of that conversation to be around changing the culture of expectation for billionaires.

Its reasonable for people who think they can better allocate resources to explain how their proposed allocation is, in fact, better. The billionaire has already proven he can put his wealth to productive use. I’m merely expecting you to suggest how you could meet that same standard.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_%26_Melinda_Gates_Foundat...
It is only exploitation if he's trying to get out, it seems he's in and doesnt want to get out just so he can stick it to the big players.
> There is nothing wrong with the word retard.

Well, sure, in that it's a word with lots of nonproblematic uses.

> It’s a legitimate dictionary word.

This implies probably a more normative role for dictionaries than is appropriate, but, sure, it is. However, as a noun applied to people (as distinct from the verb meaning “to slow down” or the noun meaning “a slowing down”) it’s one which every dictionary I can find flags explicitly as “offensive”, so insofar as one uses dictionaries as arbiters of usage, I think there clearly is a problem with the use of “retards” in question.
> So the example manages to evade any need for encapsulation.

In Scheme and many other lisps there is no difference between “objects” and “records” and “fields” and “methods”.

Defining a record with a number of fields also defines accessor functions, such that:

(define-record point
(fields (mutable x) (mutable y)))

defines the following procedures:

make-point
point?
point-x
point-y
point-set-x!
point-set-y!

All these names can optionally be changed to something else.

Encapsulation is simply enforced by not exporting any of these procedures from the module wherein they are defined.

Any arbitrarily more complicated functions can be built on top of these which can be exported.

As such, there is no meaningful difference any more between an object and a record, there is no special “dot notation” for field access and method calls, and normal procedure calls are used. This follows the general lisp design principle of avoiding special syntax as much as possible and using ordinary procedure calls for everything. There is no special “subscript notation” for `vector[i]` either, and `(vector-ref vector i)` is used instead.
Discord, a monopoly?
If you've *seen* the moderation (or the lack thereof) you'd understand why it was banned. Place was crazy with all kinds of nasty language. I'll admit I joined early on but I also left early on after seeing how lax the moderation and how much of a toxic mess it was - even more than the sub.
> IMO Go's use of upper/lower case is even worse than Python's use of underscores.

Especially when serialising a struct to JSON - only public members are serialised, so your JSON ends up with a bunch of keys called Foo, so you have to override serialisation names on all the fields to get them lowercased.
I get the vibe that this guy pays people to write articles labeling him as a billionaire because I see ten things across the web a day about "billionaire investor Chamath Palihapitiya".

Not saying he is or is not a billionaire but it seems more like a brand that he sells in the way Trump did back in the day.

He doesn't usually have any deep insights when I listen to him talk.
There have been several "blank slate" research projects about this topic like CCNx, RINA, DTN, SCION, etc.
Not as good as I had hoped on margins, this is a bit of letdown. But I am really happy about the Solar and Storage. Overall its still pretty good. Overall 2020 was very successful, specially considering the situation.

Solar collapsed quite a bit after Solarcity and introducing the Solar roof was difficult. However it seem like now they should increase growth, they are adding their own teams and they are working with 3rd company installers. Overall 2020 doesn't look good but Q3 and Q4 look like a return to solid growth

Storage is problematic area because it requires the same manufacturing as battery packs. So Tesla always had a fight for storage and it was of secondary importance. In the long run however it could be a huge market. Doubling the mount deployed from last Q is really great.

Both Berlin and Texas are moving along very well and Model Y in China coming online only now, promises continued growth for next year. The refresh Model S should again help to drive profitability as well.

I'll have to look at the numbers in more detail.
It seems unlikely that wallstreetbets and other retail investors are going to have much patience. They are already pumping other stocks.
O should also point out, these roles can be remote
It's private because the mods and the community cannot handle the sudden interest. (A subreddit squeeze!)

They even say this on the placeholder page.

A few hours ago zjz (a mod) posted about trying to get an unlimited API endpoint for Reddit from the admins so the mod bots can cope with the load.

"We are experiencing technical difficulties based on unprecedented scale as a result of the newfound interest in WSB. We are unable to ensure Reddit's content policy and the WSB rules are enforceable without a technology platform that can support automation of this enforcement. WSB will be back."
That varies by location quite a bit. I can generally walk in my local pharmacy and have a prescription filled in a few minutes. Maybe more like 15 minutes if it's a controlled substance. But as a practical matter I just walk in, pay, and pick it up, my doctor sends the prescription over electronically. And lately, any recurring prescriptions are handled by mail anyway.

Have I ever experienced that "come back in an hour" phenomenon? You bet. Then I went to a different pharmacy.
Fun game. Worth mentioning to other players that you need to use the number keys to upgrade your ship (see bottom left) right away. You're useless without upgrades.

I died a few times before figuring this out (and killed a few players who were obviously flying without upgrades).
This is possible with the Fetch API actually. You can get the chunked up contents of the request as they arrive. This link has a good example: https://javascript.info/fetch-progress
The bots were getting overwhelmed, u/zjz said that they set up more strict moderation rules and were running into rate limiting due to the traffic. Maybe reddit can whitelist them or something.
In all fairness, the reddit got absolutely flooded with new, unwanted, pump-and-dump _crap_ over the past few days... I wouldn't be surprised if this were a reaction less to GME and more to randos loudly announcing the laws they were breaking
"Market manipulation" is what we call it when you affect markets illegally. If it's not illegal, it's not manipulation. For example, if I buy a bunch of stock in a company it will usually raise the stock price. That affects the market but is not illegal and is not manipulation.
Meshtastic
I had no clue, but it seems to be in the ballpark of 8 years revenue for "the world's largest offshore drilling contractor".

So it sounds like a lot to me.

[Edit: if that was pounds not dollars, then more like 11 years]
Yeah. I’m no fan of Wall Street but there is definitely a lot of rabid vitriol around, for example, Citron, and I really would not be surprised if people were stepping over the line and calling for violence.
I think the point from Ikea’s perspective is that the regulatory regime may consider it to be net positive.
isn't ECS a composition pattern on top of OO?
I dont think so. Topology is ubiquitous in mathematics. From Zariski topologies and
Stone spaces, to concrete objects like manifolds and topological vector spaces.
Today alone:

/r/wallstreetbets goes private

GME plunges after hours

Politicians tweet attacking Wall Street (https://www.businessinsider.com/gamestop-warren-aoc-slam-wal... ) and referencing retail.

Hilarious comments on a now-godlike video of a guy who made a long analysis of GME in July. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZTr1-Gp74U&feature=youtu.be

Much discussion on the topic ensures, on HN and elsewhere.
My rough understanding is that the sub is required by Reddit admins to perform certain actions related to every submission (and even maybe every comment) which, due to API limitations, they could no longer do automatically.
Excuses like this have been leveraged for centuries to oust people who the Big Guys don't like.

Not saying it isn't true, but what I am saying is that it puts in stark relief all the servers they are NOT banning due to similar/worse behavior.
Oddly, it always seems to be the people throwing around terms like “white privilege” who are willfully ignorant. There is no such thing as white privilege.
It is a shitty, disgusting and cowardly excuse, but I bet they're gonna go with "autist" and "retard" and etc. if they stick to that line.
Wow. Considering both the Discord server and the Subreddit are publicly available to everyone, there's no illegal activity that could have occurred on them. I wonder is someone trying to prevent the public/retail investors legally rallying on legal actions?
We need an alternative to this server, there was a lot of momentum on AMC and its dwindling because people dont know where to go or whwere to turn, someone needs to make a discord or we need an alternative ASAP
/r/Wallstreetbets Locked
I don't see anything there about algos being used to neuter circuit breakers. Just a claim about some large trades being made (which is interesting too, but different).
So sad. Obviously reddit asked them to keep in check and reddit itself doesn't have technology to help WSB moderate itself.

Just one more example why decentralization is actually the future of all content/social platforms. Centralization of control just reinforces existing control/choke points trying to keep entrenched in power in the name of guidelines.
Oof, this should be interesting.
> I don't know if people realize that there are thousands of day trading shops where hundreds of people are in a single room, like an internet cafe, where people are day trading at terminals and people bark orders to each other and they all jump on the same stocks.

I'm here just puzzled, why exactly would you need hundreds of people? And why would all of them "jump on the same stocks" as opposed to a single person doing that? Do stocks care how many people jump on them, or what?